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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

This a version of the Weick W-1-A? Maybe the one passed on to Fairchild for further testing? The fuselage looks to be completely redesigned though.


Edit: Keith, I found a series of photos that included the one you posted and correct me if I am wrong, but I think your version is a scale model?

http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/Weick_W-1

If you look at the photos closely, something seems "off" to me. Thoughts?
 
Moses03 said:
This a version of the Weick W-1-A? Maybe the one passed on to Fairchild for further testing? The fuselage looks to be completely redesigned though.


Edit: Keith, I found a series of photos that included the one you posted and correct me if I am wrong, but I think your version is a scale model?

http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/Weick_W-1

if you look at the photos closely, something seems "off" to me. Thoughts?
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For what it's Worth, I share same views....
BG
 
Yes that is where I found the pictures in the 3rd row down, but now you come to mention it, on a closer look the concrete & the grass looks more coarse & larger than the other photos of the usual photos of that nomenclature. Sorry If I've mislead you!

Moses as you were the first to notice my blunder - your turn please. :very_drunk:

Keith
 
No worries Keith. It fooled me as well.


Here is an experiment of sorts.

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Thanks Kevin - won't divulge the detective work that led to my successful guess !

Here's a silly easy one to keep things rolling along as I am in need of sleep after a long night watching our momentous vote. Thankfully, common sense prevailed......

Here's a sleek twin jetliner -
 
lefty said:
Thanks Kevin - won't divulge the detective work that led to my successful guess !

Here's a silly easy one to keep things rolling along as I am in need of sleep after a long night watching our momentous vote. Thankfully, common sense prevailed......

Here's a sleek twin jetliner -
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Vickers663 Tay "Viscount"
Yes commons sense prevailed indeed....but this isn't an excellent sign for european unity...
BG
 
Don't get me started on the EU, BG ! I HATE bureaucracies and that one is the biggest in the universe - what a vast waste of money......

Anyway, no politics etc etc - Keith beat you to the punch with the Tay Viscount - must have been nice to fly in - will never forget my first Viscount flight - so smooth and quiet - those lovely big windows that you could actually see out of - those were the days !

:icon29: to Keith and eagerly awaiting his next mystery.
 
Thanks Lefty, Sorry BG, I just beat you to it this morning!!!

Anyway possibly an easy one for those who like web footed types.
Keith
 

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lefty said:
Don't get me started on the EU, BG ! I HATE bureaucracies and that one is the biggest in the universe - what a vast waste of money......

Anyway, no politics etc etc - Keith beat you to the punch with the Tay Viscount - must have been nice to fly in - will never forget my first Viscount flight - so smooth and quiet - those lovely big windows that you could actually see out of - those were the days !

:icon29: to Keith and eagerly awaiting his next mystery.
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Hello to Keith and....c'est la vie!
talking about nostalgia I was travelling extensively to the UK in those days plying the London-Liverpool-Dublin route operated by B.E.A. with Viscounts and this was a memorable experience....
BTW I don't think I know the next mystery but I'll try to look it up!
Cheers
BG
 
BG, Not sure of the exact designation but, Yes, I have it as the Burgess-Dunne seaplane.:ernaehrung004:


As for Viscounts I served my apprenticeship at Vickers at Weybridge (as did my Father & Uncle before me!) - some of which time was spent on the Viscount production line, so it was an easy spot!

Over to you,
Keith
 
Nobody putting their head above the parapet here, so I'll take a punt.

Obviously the Ju86, but which variety ?

The oddly-shaped nose is the mystery with its small glazed panel. Is it by any chance the second prototype,the cb,when it had radials fitted, and with the small forward turret removed ??
 
lefty said:
Nobody putting their head above the parapet here, so I'll take a punt.

Obviously the Ju86, but which variety ?

The oddly-shaped nose is the mystery with its small glazed panel. Is it by any chance the second prototype,the cb,when it had radials fitted, and with the small forward turret removed ??
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Hello Lefty!
Sorry for delaying my response till now.......
The caption relating to that Ju86 reads as "Junkers Ju86 version Z/2 in military outfit...". In all fairness I must say that I was never convinced of that caption and sought confirmation throughout the net especially consulting "Luftwaffe experten" without much sucess much the more so because the full "Kennung" is unavailable only last two letters "R H" being readable.
In view of the above and since nobody else has stuck his head out of the window I feel you should be awarded the next turn....
Cheers
BG
PS Should anybody know more about this rather mysterious item he is welcome to come forward!
 
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